This sounds like the entire logistics aspect of FD2030/SIF is betting on a come and betting on shipping and "regenerative logistics" the Corps does not have? Better to be a force in readiness with the personnel, force structure, equipment, and logistics you have instead of the personnel, force structure, equipment, and logistics you want, need, or wish for? Otherwise, all this is just magical thinking in quest for a space based Galatic Amazon hoping to beam logistics down.
I have to agree with this criticism…MCDP-4 is an alligator mouth and no teeth. I especially take issue with the opening “Scenario - The Great Pacific War". Sitting on a remote Pacific Island waiting for the CCP to launch a single missile at your single airfield isn’t Maneuver Warfare. This scenario is more in tune with France’s Maginot Line. You are not going to solve the Great Power Competition/War logistic problem with unmanned aircraft systems and teaching Marines how to forage and butcher cows. Nor is a Marine HMARS, equipped with anti-ship missiles, the answer especially when compared to the US Army’s new “Multi-Domain Task Force”. Will someone please tell the Commandant (and US NAVY) to look at the WW2 Pacific War logistics effort (Beans, Bullets and Black Oil). It was massive! Strategic Transportation is USTRANSCOM’s problem. Theater logistics is a USINDOPACOM problem. Any war with China will be global. What the USINDOPACOM Combatant Commander and all the other Combat Commanders are going to need is combat power in the form of task organized MAGTFs. The sad part is that the CCP gets it where our military leadership does not. “Chinese Lessons Learned from the Pacific War” is an eye opener.
"In the future, thanks to the elimination of tanks and the addition of unmanned systems, foraging, and renewable energy, (all powered by AI and Machine Learning), logistics will be no problem at all, barely an inconvenience" - did I get the 2030 brand talking points right?
This sounds like the entire logistics aspect of FD2030/SIF is betting on a come and betting on shipping and "regenerative logistics" the Corps does not have? Better to be a force in readiness with the personnel, force structure, equipment, and logistics you have instead of the personnel, force structure, equipment, and logistics you want, need, or wish for? Otherwise, all this is just magical thinking in quest for a space based Galatic Amazon hoping to beam logistics down.
“The Luftwaffe will resupply the 6th Army in Stalingrad from the air...”. Herman Goering.
For those who want to grasp the greatest resupply effort in history a quick course on the Berlin Airlift might open some eyes.
I have to agree with this criticism…MCDP-4 is an alligator mouth and no teeth. I especially take issue with the opening “Scenario - The Great Pacific War". Sitting on a remote Pacific Island waiting for the CCP to launch a single missile at your single airfield isn’t Maneuver Warfare. This scenario is more in tune with France’s Maginot Line. You are not going to solve the Great Power Competition/War logistic problem with unmanned aircraft systems and teaching Marines how to forage and butcher cows. Nor is a Marine HMARS, equipped with anti-ship missiles, the answer especially when compared to the US Army’s new “Multi-Domain Task Force”. Will someone please tell the Commandant (and US NAVY) to look at the WW2 Pacific War logistics effort (Beans, Bullets and Black Oil). It was massive! Strategic Transportation is USTRANSCOM’s problem. Theater logistics is a USINDOPACOM problem. Any war with China will be global. What the USINDOPACOM Combatant Commander and all the other Combat Commanders are going to need is combat power in the form of task organized MAGTFs. The sad part is that the CCP gets it where our military leadership does not. “Chinese Lessons Learned from the Pacific War” is an eye opener.
"In the future, thanks to the elimination of tanks and the addition of unmanned systems, foraging, and renewable energy, (all powered by AI and Machine Learning), logistics will be no problem at all, barely an inconvenience" - did I get the 2030 brand talking points right?